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I am currently an associate professor of psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As a personality psychologist, I am interested in the assessment of indivi​dual differences and in making finer distinctions between personality dimensions in order to increase theoretical understanding of how personality affects behavior. Specifically, I adopt a person x situation perspective to understand how individual differences in motivation predict different reactions within different social contexts, which in turn lead to important personal and social outcomes. I'm particularly interested in the implicit motives for achievement, power, and affiliation...how to measure them, make differentiations between them, and determining how individual differences in these motives affect performance, health, and well-being.​

Active Projects

​Motives and Emotions

This is an experimental study examining the relationship between implicit motives and emotions.

Measuring Motives

This area of work aims to design and validate a content coding based system for assessing implicit Hope of Success and Fear of Failure motivation. It is also involved with developing best-practices for the measurement of motives using the Picture Story Exercise.